Weekend reads and notes

There's a pretty good summation of how 92 digital billboard came to be put up in the city in a Times story on neighbors fighting them as nuisances.

Deputy mayor Diego Alvarez is moving back to the airports department, charged in part with bringing light rail to LAX.

Jonathan Gold pledges allegiance to the L.A. street food trend and implies there will be less chef adoration from him in the future: "While nobody was paying attention, food quietly assumed the place in youth culture that used to be occupied by rock 'n' roll -- individual, fierce and intensely political, communal yet congenial to aesthetic extremes."

Reviews are in for L.A. authors KC Cole ("Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up"), Tod Goldberg ("Other Resort Cities") and Daniel A. Olivas ("Anywhere but L.A.").

Nearly 90 initiatives are working their way through the system in Sacramento, with many likely to get on the ballot.

The Daily News editorial page called for a charter amendment to once and for all give the Controller the power to do performance audits.

KPCC reporter Jackson Musker returned to the Oakridge mobile home park to update the continuing after-effects of the fire that displaced residents.

Arcadia lawyer Dolly Gee was confirmed as the first Chinese-American woman judge on the U.S. District Court here.